[Rd] possible bug in formals

Josef Leydold leydold at statmath.wu.ac.at
Sun May 23 16:14:55 CEST 2010


Hi,

I am a little bit surprised by the following output of
'formals'. Is this the intended behavior?

> f <- function(a=1,b=-1) { a+b }
> class(formals(f)$a)
[1] "numeric"
> class(formals(f)$b)
[1] "call"


Josef


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